JS>SG>What about S&W's new, improved 9-shot M-17? And I hear Taurus will now 
be
  >SG>making a 10-shot. If the 9-shot was an "evil-assault-revolver", does 
that
  >SG>make a 10-shot a tactical nuclear weapon? :-O
JS>Yeah, with depleted uranium penetrators that make little mini nuclear
  >explosions on impact...  :-)
JS>On a related subject, one of the guys I worked with was in the navy for 4
  >years.  I forget what his job was, but it was not a metallurgist.  He was
  >describing the Phalanx ship defense system that uses a 20mm vulcan cannon,
  >and informed me that the gun used 'depleted titanium rounds'.  Must be
  >heck on the barrel walls, eh?  :-)
It uses "depleted uranium" rounds, fires around 3000 rounds a
minute.  A successful engagement lasts around 2 or 3 seconds -
you get it or it gets use.
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